77 Relationship Quotes

77 Relationship Quotes

Find inspiring relationship quotes that will remind you of the importance of relationships in our lives.

Relationships are a beautiful part of life, but looking after those relationships can be challenging at times. We hope these quotes will help you to push past any difficulties or help you appreciate the person you care about!

Last Edited 10/27/2021

  1. The biggest difference trust makes in any relationship – and not just an intimate one – is that you can relax, be open, be yourself.Mira Kirshenbaum, I Love You But I Don’t Trust You
    Trust
  2. Being good to yourself equates to having a positive relationship
 with yourself and higher self-esteem. Sophie Winters

  3. Being good to yourself equates to having a positive relationship with yourself and higher self-esteem. Sophie Winters, It’s Not You It’s Us
    Inspirational Quotes
  4. Our relationships with animals, especially our pets, also fall into the category of things that everyday people care about but psychologists usually don’t.Hal herzog, Some We Love, Some We hate, Some we eat
    Animal Quotes
  5. When you cultivate quality relationships, not only do you feel better and help your friends feel better, but you contribute to an increase of joy, love, and peace in the world.Tara Bianca, The Flower of Heaven
    Quality
  6. Don't give up at the first signs of friction: only through clear communication,
 flexibility and willingness to adapt can you find a relationship that will weather
 the storms of life. Tom Miles

  7. Don’t give up at the first signs of friction: only through clear communication, flexibility and willingness to adapt can you find a relationship that will weather the storms of life.Tom Miles, A Year For Change
    Quotes about Change
  8. Forgiveness is essential for every kind of relationship we haveBarbara J Hunt, Forgiveness Made Easy
    Hurt
  9. It has been discussed that leadership and communication are requisite in a marriage. A lack of communication can result in each spouse moving away from God’s purpose for their marriage and from God Himself.Dianne Alphonse-Kalloo, Marriage As God Intends.
    Wedding
  10. Like any relationship, a friendship needs to be maintained. Often, any time spent with a friend is a good time, but make sure you don’t take each other for granted.Lucy Lane, The Little Book of Friendship
    Friend Quotes
  11. Beyond friendships adding to the list of improving life success and happiness,
experts also assert that supportive relationships improve our odds of 
survival by fifty percent. Shasta Nelson

  12. Beyond friendships adding to the list of improving life success and happiness,experts also assert that supportive relationships improve our odds of survival by fifty percent.” Shasta Nelson, Friendships Don’t Just Happen!
    Support
  13. A sense of interconnectedness with others has been shown to fortify feelings of happiness.Will Bowen, Happy This Year
    Happiness Quotes
  14. We were created for social connection. We are at our best when we have healthy relationships with people who genuinely care about us, respect us, and lift us up.Robyn L. Gobin, The self-care prescription
    Inspirational Quotes for Students
  15. When your whole life is unfolding and it is built on lack of trust - either 
in self or others - jealousy will cause the relationship to flounder. Sofia Price

  16. When your whole life is unfolding and it is built on lack of trust – either in self or others – jealousy will cause the relationship to flounder.Sofia Price, Jealousy
    Love Trust
  17. Our lack of attention means we don’t notice or we miss much that is going on and this affects our relationships.Anna Black, Living in the moment
    Influence
  18. Assumptions are the termites of relationships. Henry Winkler

  19. Assumptions are the termites of relationships. Henry Winkler
    Funny Quotes about Life
  20. Trust is involved in all the basic elements of a healthy relationship: namely, love (respect and consideration for another person), communication, commitment and honesty.Harold Duarte-Bernhardt
    Commitment
  21. A true soulmate relationship is like an exquisitely beautiful flower that only grows in a well-cared-for and protected place. This flower has a wonderfully delicate scent that will enchant anyone who comes near. Tara Springett, Soulmate relationships

    A true soulmate relationship is like an exquisitely beautiful flower that only grows in a well-cared-for and protected place. This flower has a wonderfully delicate scent that will enchant anyone who comes near.Tara Springett, Soulmate relationships.
    Comforting

  22. Relationships are hard work, but the hardest work is letting go of our personal agendas and learning to accept that we are who we are and where we are right now for a reason.Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy
    Hard Work
  23. Learn to be selfless in your relationship/marriage and the rewards might just surprise you.Godspower Elishason , Will You Marry Me?:
    Believe in Yourself
  24. Relationships are give and take, and it is time to get rid of any relationship that does not return at least as much as you are putting in.Lou Ann Daly, Ph.D, Counterintuitive
    Being Strong
  25. … if you learn to have those difficult conversations in a loving, honest, and responsible way, your relationships can become better than you ever thought they could. Henry Cloud, John Townsend; How to Have That Difficult Conversation
    Encouraging Poems
  26. How we interact with others can determine our success or our failure. One rule of success is to treat people as you want to be treated. Catherine Pulsifer
    Graduation
  27. Trust in a relationship is very crucial. Without trust, a relationship cannot last as a healthy and happy bond.Alana Johnson
    Happy
  28. Good human-relations skills have the ability to change people from managing others to leading others. John Rampey
    Coaching
  29. When you are focused on your partner’s good qualities and show them the same kindness, warmth, respect and generosity of spirit that you would your best friend, your relationship has the greatest chance of not just surviving but thriving into its later years.Sophie Winters, It’s Not You It’s Us
    Kindness
  30. When you choose relationships, look for people with a sense of humor. Ace McCloud

  31. When you choose relationships, look for people with a sense of humor. If you are around others who are funny and lighthearted, you are more likely to find yourself relaxed and enjoying a good laugh. Ace McCloud, Forgiveness
    Funny
  32. We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. Thomas Moore, Irish Actor
    Irish Quotes and Sayings
  33. The purpose of a business is to create a mutually beneficial relationship between itself and those that it serves. When it does that well, it will be around tomorrow to do it some more. John Woods
    Customer Service
  34. When you are whole, you offer a whole load more to any relationship that you form and are much more likely to encourage the right kind of people into your life because you won’t accept less. Joanna Jackson, Self Help
    Encouraging
  35. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. Dalai Lama
    Best Motivational Quotes
  36. To seek feedback about a difficult relationship, find someone you can trust to ask. Amy Kay Watson, Working with Stress and Fear
    Words of Encouragement
  37. People live in each other’s shelter.
    Irish Proverb
  38. Whether we go to work daily, develop our own business, or enter into or develop relationships with others, there are times when it is either necessary, or just a good strategy to do more than is required, or go the extra mile to make a difference. Byron Pulsifer, Going The Extra Mile
    Make A Difference
  39. Even in the midst of conflict, confusion and miscommunications, we can thank the Lord through faith that we are blessed to be a family.Rich Bimler, Grandparents
    Family
  40. Compliments are confidence boosters, and the better you feel about yourself, the more happiness you will bring to your relationship. Alexis G. Roldan
    Confidence
  41. Faith at its heart is about trust. It’s one thing to believe in God; it’s quite something else to trust him with our lives. We all want deeper relationships built on trust. Rick Perry
    Faith
  42. We all need to seek role models and develop relationships with them.Les Brown
    Famous
  43. … friendship is a key relationship, not an “extra” that we make the time for when the other primary relationships in our life are addressed Jan Yager, When Friendship Hurts
    Friendship
  44. Of course, in sports and in many aspects of our civilian life we can’t do everything ourselves so sports teach us the value and the interworking relationship of teamwork. Darrin Wiggins, Champion Mind Unbeatable Athlete
    Teamwork
  45. Whether it is a friendship, a politician, a couple, a company, or a church, there is often more work at the beginning of a new relationship to gain or attract someone's favor than there is every day thereafter. Shannon Scott

  46. Whether it is a friendship, a politician, a couple, a company, or a church, there is often more work at the beginning of a new relationship to gain or attract someone’s favor than there is every day thereafter.Shannon Scott, Influence
    Quote of the Day
  47. Working through conflict, we maintain and build a strong but flexible, honest but loving connection in our relationship. Aaron F. Steinberg, The Honesty Practice
    Motivational Poems
  48. We make hundreds of choices in our lives. Other people make hundreds of choices. We might wish and hope that we can change other peoples’ choices so they can avoid potential problems be that drug abuse, alcohol, relationships, parenting and on and on.Byron Pulsifer
    Hope
  49. We get so preoccupied with our own things that we forget that people are the priority in life. Rick Warren
    Famous Quotes about Life
  50. Relationships require love, commitment, and intimacy to survive.Chris Donaghue, Sex Outside the Lines
    Survivor
  51. A love relationship, especially, marriage is a journey, not a destination. You don’t arrive; you learn to enjoy the journey. Dr. Carletta Perry, A Good Man is Hard to Find…or Is He?
    Enjoy the Journey
  52. To enjoy an inner relationship with someone is to enjoy the moment as it is creating itself to be.L. M. Bailey, The Joy of Creating A Gentle Look
    Enjoy the Moment
  53. Seize the day. Love freely and fully in the now, never assuming that “in time” you will get around to loving. Dr. Michael B. Brown, The Love Principle
    Seize the Day
  54. Relationships, I believe, are truly sacred, not in the superficial meaning of simply being high in value, but in that they call upon infinite and mysterious depths in ourselves, in our communities, and in the very nature of things.Thomas Moore, Soul Mates
    Soulmate
  55. Marriage signifies oneness- In other relationships, people are different entities but in marriage, the couple is considered as one. This is what makes marriage a different kind of bond. Mark McGrann, Marriage
    Marriage
  56. In the beginning of a relationship, your love may include only you and the other person. But if you practice true love, very soon that love will grow and include all of us. Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Love
    True Love
  57. Whether you are in your first relationship or you have been married for 20 years keeping the romance going is the secret. Denise Brienne, 250 Romantic Ideas For Couples
    Romantic Poems
  58. The success of marriages and all other close relationships depends upon slowing down enough and opening up enough to create a space that welcomes simple, kind words. Edward M. Hallowell Md, Married to Distraction
    Success
  59. Everything in life starts as a seed – a relationship, a marriage, a business, a church. And nothing happens until the seed is planted. Rick Warren
    Life
  60. Healthy relationships of all kinds are usually composed of honesty, trust, and respect. Ace McCloud, Confident Communication Skills
    Respect
  61. Putting love first, even above the laws of marriage,will allow you to see past the small, insignificant details andfocus on the relationship you truly desire. E’yen A.Gardner, Husband Rules
    Love
  62. ...apologizing is what keeps your relationship together. Christian Olsen

  63. Even when you don’t feel like it, apologizing is what keeps your relationship together. I never apologized as much as since when I got married. Christian Olsen
    Apology
  64. If anything is true about being in a blended family, it’s that it forces us to look into new and better ways to interact with people.Deana Kellar La Rosa, Blended Families
    Blended Family
  65. In terms of the span of time, the intimacy, and the shared experience of childhood, no other relationship rivals the connection we have with our adult brothers or sisters.T.J. Wray, Surviving the Death of a Sibling
    Sibling
  66. Recruiting is the key to an effective volunteer program because how you recruit your volunteers affects the kind of relationship you are going to have with them.Sunny Fader, 365 Ideas for Recruiting, Retaining, Motivating and Rewarding Your Volunteers
    Volunteer
  67. Jealousy is born out of our need to feel secure, worthy or safe in our relationship. When any of these are threatened, jealousy steps up to protect us from the fears that have begun to stir within.Stanley Steel, How to Not Be Jealous
    Jealousy
  68. Star Wars is obsessed with the complex relationship between fathers and sons, and with what they will do for each other, especially when life itself hangs in the balance. Cass R. Sunstein, The World According to Star Wars
    Star Wars
  69. Communicating socially is an imperative part of our daily lives and relationships, and when we can interpret and intact with those emotions of others, we’re able to build stronger relationships.Salma Stockdale, Communication Skills
    Communication
  70. Breath practices combined with self-reflection can unlock the metal casing around the heart, enabling reconnection with loving feelings and positive emotions within ourselves and in our relationships.Richard P. Brown, The healing power of the breath
    Mental Health
  71. Forgiveness provides healthier relationships whether it be friendship or intimate relationships. L. S. Louvain, How To Be Happy
    Forgiveness
  72. Relationships are not acquired; they are built upon love, forgiveness and compassion.Byron R. Pulsifer
    Compassion
  73. You can create closeness with anyone who also desires it… anyone can become a person close to your heart, if you make the effort. You can create closeness within one of your existing relationships or within one yet to be formed. Kira Asatryan, Stop Being Lonely
    Effort
  74. We were all made to be loved and made to be known, to find ourselves in honest relationships where those things can be reciprocated and exchanged. Jamie Tworkowski
    Honesty
  75. Marriage is such a beautiful relationship and a gift from God. It’s God’s design, created between a man and a woman.Whitney Meade, The Balance Beam
    God
  76. Look inside any sister relationship and you’ll find a wealth of interesting stories.Colleen Sell, A Cup of Comfort for Sisters
    Sister
  77. There is no one right way to have a relationship – there are as many ways as there are mothers and daughters. Each relationship is unique.Judy Ford, Between Mother and Daughter
    Daughter
  78. Today we are living longer and retiring earlier, . . . Rather than fading into the sunset, we have time to rediscover our personal uniqueness, deepen relationships, and question the mysteries of life. Douglas Fletcher

  79. Today we are living longer and retiring earlier, allowing us twenty-five or more years to pursue lifelong goals and passions. Rather than fading into the sunset, we have time to rediscover our personal uniqueness, deepen relationships, and question the mysteries of life. Douglas Fletcher, Life After Full Time Work:
    Retirement
  80. Cooking from scratch isn’t simply a nod to a simpler past. It is increasingly imperative for our well-being, our relationships, our society, and, indeed, our planet Alison Cayne, Cooking School
    Food
  81. The secret to a happy relationship is communication and understanding through angelic wisdom, and respect and compassion through angelic love. Sabi Hilmi, The Secrets of Angel Healing
    Secret
  82. Don’t take yourself seriously, but take your relationship seriously. Marie-Ange Faugerolas, Angels
    Short Love Quotes
  83. Whether the relationship thrives or withers isn’t up to you alone. As the old saying goes, it takes two to tango. Rashid Rashad,The Power of Family Unity
    Empowering Quotes
  84. …mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.Victoria Secunda
    Mother
  85. My dad … reminded me that my relationship with the Heavenly Father is even more important than my relationship with my earthly father. I wish that all fathers had his wisdom. Wilda Young, Fishhooks in Treetops
    Dad
  86. However, quality love relationships do not happen by accident. Real love is built the old-fashioned way – through hard work.Danny Silk, Keep Your Love On
    Short Love Poems

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